GUYANESE have responded overwhelmingly to Bai Shan Lin’s vacancies for jobs, exceeding expectation by 100 more applicants, according to Whenze Chu, Chairman of the China Forest Industry Group Company Ltd, the parent company of Bai Shan Lin Forest Development Inc. Over 800 have eventually been employed by the Chinese wood processing and export company after it had published an advertisement seeking 700, and according to the chairman, 100 have already been assigned to their working positions.
The recruitment drive comes in light of the company’s plans for large scale industries, among which is a wood economic and trade park that will promote production of various kinds of wood products and brands that will boost the development of the local economy.
Included in the proposed park will be industries for shipbuilding, woodworking, machinery, processing and manufacturing, food and aquatic processing, mining, a school and a hospital.
Construction of an international mall and an exhibition centre to showcase finished products manufactured at the Bai Shan Lin plant in Linden and other entrepreneurship ventures are also included.
Yesterday, Chu and a team that included new Chinese Ambassador to Guyana, Zhang Limin, met President Donald Ramotar for a second round of talks in relation to its wood processing plant in Linden and housing development at Providence on the East Bank of Demerara.
Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali and Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud were also part of the meeting.
The Chinese company has been in Guyana over the past eight years, through the Bai Shan Lin Forest Development Inc, Haimorakabra Logging, Karlam South America Timbers, Wood Associated Industries, Kwebanna Wood Productions, Sherwood Forests, Bai Shan Lin Housing, Construction, Mining Development Inc., and Bai Shan Lin Shipbuilding and Heavy Industries Inc.